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Home / addiction

The Water Lover

Aug. 8, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, conundrum 25, exhaustion, OCD, over-hydrating

Constellations

Jul. 4, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, adolescence, alcoholism, grief stages, hostile culture, LGBTQIAP+, mental health

Too Cool To Be Forgotten

May. 18, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, cold turkey, quit smoking, recovery, smoking addiction

Impossible People

May. 18, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, alcoholism, Memoir, mental health, recovery

The Nib – Drugs Issue – Vol 2 No 8

Jan. 29, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, illicit drugs, marketing, prescription drugs

Cannon Ball

Jan. 3, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, alcoholism, LGBTQI, mental health

A Mess of Everything

Jan. 3, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, anorexia, drug abuse, high school, mental health, relationships

Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

Dec. 17, 2022 by Guest

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Tags: addiction, alcoholism, Memoir, recovery, sexual encounters

Bottoms Up!

Aug. 29, 2022 by Guest

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Book Review by Gene Bild   I’ve long thought an anthology by a range of ex-addicts and other sober folk telling their life stories was overdue. It’s now arrived as a graphic novel and that’s surely icing on the cake. Forty-four mostly anonymous souls were paired with cartoonists and then bared all, delivering gripping tales of sad descent and then some measure of redemption. I binge-read Bottoms Up! cover to cover in one sitting and here mention a few of its highlights. Accepting the premise that these are first person narratives, the mere fact of their telling implies the recovery,… Read More

Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling addiction, pornography addiction, sex addiction

Alcohol Addiction: a Memoir and a Fiction

Jun. 20, 2021 by Guest

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Guest Review by Gene Bild Books relating personal battles with drugs and alcohol naturally tend to feature the authors as characters. While Ollmann distances himself somewhat by fabricating a stand-in alter ego named Caleb Wyatt, Nagata renders her harrowing warts-and-all story of hospitalization and eventual semi-recovery realistically. The two stories are quite different in tone. Nagata’s story is a memoir, an account of her several-year binge and eventual hospitalization. Not only is Ollmann’s novel fiction, but he ensures our awareness of this with the book’s title. Ollmann’s book is gently playful and quite funny, and not the dark whistle-as-you-pass-the-graveyard humor… Read More

Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, alcoholism

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